Interceptor missile successfully test-fi red

BALASORE: As part of
its plan to deploy a twolayer
ballistic missile defence
system, India on Friday
successfully test-fi red
its indigenously developed
supersonic interceptor missile
from the Integrated Test
Range off Orissa coast.
A surface-to-surface target
missile - a modifi ed ‘Prithvi’
– was fi rst lifted from the
launch Complex-III in ITR
at Chandipur, 15 km from
here around 10:13 hours,
defence sources said. The
missile tracking network
Interceptor missile
successfully test-fi red
JAIPUR: Janta Party President
Subramanian Swamy
said by the end of the month
he would fi le appeal before
the Delhi High Court against
the CBI Special Court’s
clean chit to Union Finance
Minister P Chidambaram in
the 2G Spectrum scam.
Talking to reporters here on
Thursday Swamy said, ‘The
trial court’s verdict does not
mean that Chidambaram had
no role in the scam, I have
suffi cient proof/evidences
and also have faith in the
judiciary’. The former
Union Law Minister said, ‘I
have time of three months
for fi ling an appeal and that
would be moved within this
month’. Targeting the ruling
Congress and its Government
at the Centre, the
Janta party Chief said the
party was totally exposed
before masses in this biggest
scam involved money to the
tune of Rs 72,000 crore.
He also criticised the leadership
of Congress Supremo
Sonia Gandhi and said under
her leadership the Congress
lost its original face
and character.
Over Assembly elections
in Uttar Pradesh, he said the
contest was between leaderships
of Chief Minister
Mayawati and former chief
minister Mulayam Singh
Yadav. Swamy was in the
town to deliver a lecture.
Swamy to fi le appeal before Delhi HC
against clean chit to PC
consisting of long range and
multi-function radars and
other range sensors positioned
at different locations
detected and identifi ed the
incoming missile. The interceptor
missile at Wheeler
Island, about 70 km across
the sea from Chandipur,
with a directional warhead
was launched at about 10:16
hour and ground and on
board control guided it to
the target, the sources said.
The last fl ight of interceptor
missile was conducted on
March 6, 2011.